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FPRI takes no positions on the presidential candidates; naturally, our individual scholars do, and we anticipate those positions will vary. Last week, a group of more than 100 leading Republican foreign-policy and defense experts, including many with decades...
Read more »As part of the September 2015 fanfare visit by Xi Xinping to the United States, the United States and China signed an arrangement on rules of behavior for safety of air-to-air encounters of military aircraft. The deal is supposed...
Read more »Watching North Korea again test an atomic bomb and long-range missile within four weeks of each other is like a repeat visit to a movie. The UN Security Council slaps enhanced sanctions on Pyongyang, actions that won’t be implemented...
Read more »It was the French intellectual and writer, Albert Camus, who once wrote, “I love my country too much to be a nationalist”. Those words seem to have particular relevance to India’s contemporary political milieu. What most activists and intellectuals...
Read more »Foreign Affairs Great powers have long supported unsavory dictatorships in pursuit of strategic interests, such as natural resources, military security, and financial gain. The relationship usually involves an impressive array of incentives, including diplomatic carrots such as treaty agreements...
Read more »Fu Ying (“How China Sees Russia,” January/February 2016) argues that in the triangular relationship among China, Russia, and the United States, the points representing Moscow and Washington are farthest apart. This is certainly true in eastern Europe and, to...
Read more »If Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan thought last November that by downing a Russian Su-24 bomber near the Turkish-Syrian border he could contain Vladimir Putin’s Middle Eastern ambitions, he is certainly regretting that now. An incensed Vladimir Putin vowed...
Read more »A prominent Georgian opposition leader, Aleksi Petriashvili, was shot and wounded on February 26 at a cemetery in central Tbilisi. While he is expected to make a full recovery, the attack is likely to aggravate Georgia’s worsening political divides....
Read more »Abstract Vessel anti-fouling is key to the efficient operation of ships, and essential for effective control of invasive species introduced through international shipping. Anti-Fouling Systems, however, pose their own threats to marine environments. The Anti-Fouling Convention of 2001 banned...
Read more »In 1735, the Northampton, Mass., pastor Jonathan Edwards, later acclaimed as America’s greatest theologian, recorded one of the oddest conversions in history. His convert was a 4-year-old, Phebe Bartlett, a child in his parish. In a chronicle designed to...
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